Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:43:12 GMT From: "freebsd" <freebsd@whoowl.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Setting Up new disk the hardway Message-ID: <20010103184312.41066.qmail@vanbo.whoowl.com>
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Ok, so I have been using freebsd on my servers for my company and at my home for around 6 months. I have been able to figure out most things from the man pages, handbook, and google. What I am trying to do seems simple enough but I am missing something. I want to move my entire drives contents to another drive so that I can take the old drive out for a different machine. Seems simple enough, so I came up with this plan. 1) setup the new drive 2) drop to single mode 3) mount each partition on new drive to /mnt 4) dump coresponding partion into restore via a pipe making sure it's in /mnt 5) Wash, rinse, repeat for other partions 6) halt, and remove old drive, pray it boots. So far, after about an hour playing with it, I can't even get past step one. I guess I am trying to make it hard, but I am trying to learn, so I didn't want to use sysinstall, and have been trying the steps listed in the handbook. Problem is I think the handbook may have some typos in it, as there seems to be some difference in order of steps listed there... From http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/disks-adding.html: For slices # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 # fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk # disklabel -B -w -r da1s1 auto #Label it. # disklabel -e da1s1 # mkdir -p /1 # newfs /dev/da1s1e # Repeat this for every partition you created. For dedicated # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 # disklabel -Brw da1 auto # disklabel -e da1 # create the `e' partition # newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e # mkdir -p /1 So here are my questions: 1) Why the copy 1024 null to /dev/rda1? The example is working on da1... 2) Why does mkdir -p /1 happen before newfs on slices but the other way on dedicated? 3) what am I suppose to change (in vi) when I type disklabel -e da1? 4) Lastly, why when I try this does it give me the error "insufficent space"? Thanks in advance, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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